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populated countries, revolutionary movements hold 

 within themselves the germ of dissolution. It is 

 difficult to collect the men together for action ; and 

 if collected, it is difficult to obtain food, or funds to 

 buy it for them. Eiel got over this difficulty by 

 seizing upon the Hudson Bay Company stores of pro- 

 visions as a preliminary step in his rebellion. He 

 was thus able to feed, clothe, and pay his soldiers at 

 the Company's expense. If at the outset of lis 

 revolutionary career Fort Garry had been set on fire, 

 and all its stores of food, money, clothing, ammunition, 

 &c., &c., thus burnt, the rebellion would have been 

 smothered and buried in the smoke and ashes. 



Kiel in his fall experienced the fickleness of Dame 

 Fortune. On the 23d August he was the despotic 

 potentate issuing orders like a dictator, there behg 

 none to gainsay him. Early in the forenoon on the 

 following morning he might have been seen accom- 

 panied only by one follower, both on stolen horses, 

 galloping through the rain and mud, their backs to- 

 wards the scene of their villany. Let us hope that 

 as he passed in his flight the spot where the poor 

 Canadian volunteer had been murdered by his orders, 

 he repented him of his crime. These two worthies, 

 the master and the man, having crossed to the right 

 bank of the Eed Eiver, fled south, thinking they 

 were safer from pursuit on that side of it than if they 

 followed the regular road to Pembina, which runs on 

 the western or left bank of that stream. Jnght 



